{"id":282680,"date":"2025-11-13T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282680\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:39:08","slug":"blue-origin-launches-huge-rocket-carrying-twin-nasa-spacecraft-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/282680\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin launches huge rocket carrying twin NASA spacecraft to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Blue Origin has successfully launched its huge rocket with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 98-metre New Glenn blasted into the afternoon sky from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, sending twin Mars orbiters on a journey to the red planet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The launch followed several days of delays due to cloudy skies and a geomagnetic storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The space venture of billionaire Jeff Bezos achieved a key engineering objective when its reusable first-stage booster separated from the rocket&#8217;s upper stage minutes after launch and flew back to Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Cheers erupted in mission control when it touched down safely on a barge in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">An ecstatic Bezos watched the action from Launch Control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">About 20 minutes later, it was confirmed that New Glenn&#8217;s upper stage had achieved its primary mission: deployment of NASA&#8217;s twin Escapade spacecraft into outer space to embark on a 22-month voyage to Mars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AP\/Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blue Origin has successfully launched its huge rocket with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-282680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}